10 Awful Fashion Trends Of The Future (According To Films)

9. Foil

As seen in: Any science fiction made before 1970 Foil was used a surprising amount in the space race. The aluminium stuff you find in your kitchen drawers - and find difficult to tear off in a straight line - wouldn't help withstand the vast temperatures of re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, but the stuff NASA used to coat the outside of the Apollo capsules that rocketed back down from the Moon looked basically the same. Not only did it protect Neil Armstrong from becoming crispy, but it also made sure Buzz Aldrin's lunch was kept fresh. That look inspired countless set designs and terrible get ups in science fiction ever since. Old school sci-fi films are practically coated in bacofoil, a material that has yet to be employed in fashion because it's uncomfortable to wear, makes loads of noise, tears apart easily, would literally bake you if you went outside on a hot day and would blind anybody else if it was particularly sunny. And yet it was also employed recently in the surreal Iranian film Taboor, with the opening scene consisting of an old man waking up in a room covered in aluminium foil, dressed in foil, like it's the most natural thing in the world. Unless it winds up being the only material left over to make clothes out of in the post-apocalypse, this is probably not gonna happen.